A saúde mental na estratégia de saúde da família Dr. Roberto Andrés: Entre Rios de Minas

Abstract

The World Health Organizattion affirms that there is no official definition for mental health. Cultural differences, subjective judgments and several theories compete for the attempts of definition. Mental health is a term used to describe the level of quality of the cognitive and emotional life of an individual, and pursue their equilibrium between activities and efforts to achieve the psychological resilience. This research quested to identify and analyze the state of mental health of the population listed at the ESF Roberto Andrés, in the city of Entre Rios de Minas, proposing promotion and preventive actions on mental health, aiming to offer more quality of life to the users of this unit. This is a quantitative and descriptive study. The data was acquired from the internal database of the professionals of the team and the results were compared with the theoretical referential described in the bibliographic review. In the study, it was detected anindex of 7,7% of carriers of mental disease, with predominance in women, adults and elderly, couples (married or not) and the ones who live with their families and illiterate people. The research concluded that the number of people who carry common mental disease is high among the patients assisted by the ESF Dr. Roberto Andrés and, because of this, propose an action plan, in order to offer treatment of the mental disabled.